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Martha M. (Wiedrich) Isaak

CENTER -- Martha Magdelina Wiedrich Isaak, 95, Center, died Feb. 3, 1999 in the Beulah nursing home. Services will be held at 11 a.m. CST Monday, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Center, with the Rev. John Erickson officiating. Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery, Center.

Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m. MST Sunday at the Knife River Care Center in Beulah and after 4:30 p.m. CST Sunday at the church in Center.

Martha Magdelina Wiedrich was born on Jan. 22. 1904, on a farm at Krundahl, the daughter of George and Katherina (Ensminger) Wiedrich. Raised and educated at Mannhaven, she married Arthur H. Isaak on Oct. 10, 1925. They lived in Krem and Hazen before moving to Center in 1944 where they owned and operated Isaak and Sons Cash Store until 1951. She also worked for the Oliver County State Bank, as a waitress at the local cafe and assisted her husband at the Oliver County Treasurers Office. A member of the Center American Legion Auxiliary, the St. Paul Lutheran Ladies Aide, and the Center Golden Age Club, Martha was especially well known for her homemade fleichkeichle which she sold in the Center community. She had been a resident of the Knife River Care Center in Beulah since March of 1991.

Martha is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Calvin and Loretta Isaak, Littleton, Colo., Reuben Isaak, Jim and Diane Isaak, all of Bismarck, and Luella Isaak, Center; five daughters and sons-in-law, Lucille and Jimey Hickok, Penryn, Calif., Martene and Douglas Price, Hensler, Betty Lou and Donald Davenport, Battle Lake, Minn., Judy and Jim Johnson, Beulah, Donna and James Miller, Coon Rapids, Minn., and Gerald Mastin, Pelican Rapids, Minn.; 31 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Arthur who died on Aug. 2, 1994; two daughters, Mary Ann Isaak and Vera Mastin; three sons, Paul, Robert and Benjamin; and 11 brothers and sisters. (Buehler-Larson Funeral Home, Mandan)

~Source: The Bismarck Tribune, February 1999